Posted: February 12, 1999 at 20:37:29: by Stephen Geard
: Not being a Tolkien genuis like so many others here are, I have a question. I heard that the Balrog in Moria did not neccesarily need to have been obeying Sauron as a servant.This leads me to a question...what about other powerful Maia, such as dragons?Did they obey Sauron, or did they spread chaos by their own accord?I don't think Tolkien anywhere identified the dragons as Maiar. Morgoth bred the dragons, although he may have used Maiar in the breeding program. Perhaps he started out by crossing a Balrog with a lizard ;-) During the Second and Third Ages the dragons were independantly powerful beings who would only have served Sauron if he gave them a good reason for doing so. Tolkien says that Sauron was planning to get Smaug to attack Rivendell (hence Gandalf's urgency in getting the Dwarves to retake Erebor). But I doubt Sauron could have just ordered Smaug to attack it, he would have had to have bribed, tricked, smooth-talked, or otherwise cajoled him into doing it.
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